Hi!

So. As promised a couple days ago, I’m trying to try something new. In that post, I mentioned the idea about “making a food perfectly.” And it occurs to me that there are several things to consider. I’ll be looking at one of them right now.

The thing I’m wondering about is wasted cost. Like, you can probably learn to make inexpensive food turn out pretty well, pretty consistently. And if you don’t, then you’re not out much, right? But with really expensive foods, if you could guarantee it turning out perfectly, that would reduce wasted costs.

But on the other hand, it would be expensive to use the talent, if you only go for the expensive foods.

So, trade-offs.

I’m still not sure where I fall on that one. What about you?

Hi!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

So. I have a lot of friends in their twenties. (I especially have a lot of friends in that age range on Facebook.) And with the New Year, I’ve found there are a few basic types of posts you can expect from this age range.

Engagement Announcements. Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years are apparently popular times for people to propose (and say yes), it makes sense that many will also announce the proposal by the end of the old year or the start of the new.

Baby Announcements. This is also similar to the engagement things, bu not for quite the same reasons. Rather, if anybody is expecting around this time, there’s a high chance they’ll wait until New Years to provide the announcement. Because, you know, new things can go with new things thematically. So, New Baby? New Announcement? New Year? PERFECT trio!

You can expect a lot of these.

Wedding and engagement Photos. Winter weddings are also somewhat popular. And so, lots of people seem to try to schedule weddings / engagement shoots / etc. around this time. Expect your Facebook timeline to be swamped with these photos.

Similarly, you can expect a lot of posts celebrating others’ engagements, weddings, or photos.

Politics posts. Note that these posts aren’t actually constrained to the 20s age range. Or the New Year’s time frame. They’ll just show up uninvited anyway.

Funny commentary to start the new year. These also aren’t constrained to the 20s group, but they’re likely to show up.

So, there you have it! Several categories of posts that are likely to flood your timeline today if you have friends in their 20s, and possibly for the next week, month, or entire year!

Happy 2018!

Hi!

So. YouTube. They’ve been extensively trying to get me to sign up for a free trial of their Red subscription.

And I’m a bit conflicted about it.

You see, on the one hand, it would be nice to have long sets of music playing in the background with no interruptions mid-video. But on the other hand, some of the ads that happen at the beginning are great! Like, seriously. It turns out that League of Legends is apparently running a major ad campaign. And I wouldn’t have found out about it if not for YouTube ads. And similarly, I’ve seen a number of trailers for the first time because of YouTube ads.

I’m not even sure if I want what they’re selling.

So, I guess “conflicted” isn’t the right term. It’s more “confused”, maybe?

I dunno.

Anyway. Happy Friday!